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Essential public health : theory and practice [E-Book]

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781139420228
  • 1139420224
  • 9781139424318
  • 1139424319
  • 9781139059442
  • 1139059440
  • 9781139422277
  • 1139422278
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • 2012 G-788
  • WA 100
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I: The Public health toolkit -- Chapter 1. -- Management, leadership and change / Stephen Gillam and Jan Yates -- Chapter 2. -- Demography / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 3. -- Epidemiology / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 4. -- The Health status of the population / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Jan Yates -- Chapter 5. -- Evidence-based health-care / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 6. -- Health needs assessment / Stephen Gillam, Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath -- Chapter 7. -- Decision making in the health-care sector -- the role of public health / Jan Yates and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 8. -- Improving population health / Stephen Gillam and Jan Yates -- Chapter 9. -- Screening / Jan Yates and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 10. -- Health protection and communicable disease control / Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath -- Chapter 11. -- Improving quality of care / Nicholas Steel and Stephen Gillam.
Part II: Contexts for public health practice. -- Introduction to part 2 -- what do we mean by contexts in public health? / Jan Yates -- Chapter 12. -- The Health of children and young people / Kirsteen L. Macleod, Rachel Crowther and Sarah Stewart-Brown -- Chapter 13. -- Adult public health / Veena Rodrigues -- Chapter 14. -- Public health and ageing / Lincoln Sargeant and Carol Brayne -- Chapter 15. -- Health inequalities and public health practice / Chrissie Pickin and Jennie Popay -- Chapter 16. -- Health policy / Richard Lewis and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 17. -- International development and public health / Jenny Amery -- Chapter 18. -- Sustainable development -- the opportunities and the challenges for the public's health / David Pencheon.
Summary: This second edition has been fully updated with contemporary examples and includes new chapters on sustainability and change, management and leadership. An internet companion includes supplementary information and interactive, self-assessment questions.
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Previous edition: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Part I: The Public health toolkit -- Chapter 1. -- Management, leadership and change / Stephen Gillam and Jan Yates -- Chapter 2. -- Demography / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 3. -- Epidemiology / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 4. -- The Health status of the population / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Jan Yates -- Chapter 5. -- Evidence-based health-care / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 6. -- Health needs assessment / Stephen Gillam, Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath -- Chapter 7. -- Decision making in the health-care sector -- the role of public health / Jan Yates and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 8. -- Improving population health / Stephen Gillam and Jan Yates -- Chapter 9. -- Screening / Jan Yates and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 10. -- Health protection and communicable disease control / Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath -- Chapter 11. -- Improving quality of care / Nicholas Steel and Stephen Gillam.

Part II: Contexts for public health practice. -- Introduction to part 2 -- what do we mean by contexts in public health? / Jan Yates -- Chapter 12. -- The Health of children and young people / Kirsteen L. Macleod, Rachel Crowther and Sarah Stewart-Brown -- Chapter 13. -- Adult public health / Veena Rodrigues -- Chapter 14. -- Public health and ageing / Lincoln Sargeant and Carol Brayne -- Chapter 15. -- Health inequalities and public health practice / Chrissie Pickin and Jennie Popay -- Chapter 16. -- Health policy / Richard Lewis and Stephen Gillam -- Chapter 17. -- International development and public health / Jenny Amery -- Chapter 18. -- Sustainable development -- the opportunities and the challenges for the public's health / David Pencheon.

This second edition has been fully updated with contemporary examples and includes new chapters on sustainability and change, management and leadership. An internet companion includes supplementary information and interactive, self-assessment questions.

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